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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF THE PHOTO‐FIT * TECHNIQUE FOR RECALLING FACES
Author(s) -
ELLIS HADYN,
SHEPHERD JOHN,
DAVIES GRAHAM
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1975.tb01437.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , encoder , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , computer vision , artificial intelligence , computer science , statistics , mathematics , social science , sociology
Two experiments concerning the efficiency of the Photo‐fit Kit for recalling faces are reported. The first of these tested subjects' ability to reconstruct photographs of faces made up of features randomly selected from the Kit. Two presentation procedures were examined: either the stimulus face was present throughout the reconstruction, or it was reconstructed from memory. The face present condition produced better reconstructions than did the memory condition, though both were far from perfect. Subjects (encoders) who had performed relatively well or badly on the memory condition in Expt. I were used in Expt. II which was concerned with the ease with which Photo‐fit reconstructions of a photographed real face could be identified (decoded) by other subjects. The overall success rate was quite low, but the reconstructions of good encoders were more easily recognized than were those of poor encoder subjects.